GoodWolf
The Helping Hand Mission Band entertains and inspires countless people through their music and dance.
But their mission is much more. It’s a lifestyle. Community. Commitment. Some members started in the band when they were 5, and are now in their 40’s. Others grew up in the band and are now raising their own children in it. They are family. And Sylvia, the “mother.” She is an inspiration to the band and to the community. And to us.
Shannon developed a relationship with Sylvia through community events with The Helping Hand Mission, Capital Club 16, Good Times Assurance Co., and Contemporary Art Museum. Eve first saw them perform at a First Friday at CAM, and knew right away that she wanted to photograph them.
As we both wanted get to know more of who they are and what they do, we decided to collaborate with each other, and with the band, and do this through photography and interviews. We are producing a book to document the year. In the meantime, please follow along with us here.
We would like to thank Sylvia, the band members and thier families for letting us into thier lives and sharing their stories over the past year.
Eve Hobgood
Eve Kakassy Hobgood is a photographer and native North Carolinian.
Prior to moving to Raleigh in 2014, Eve spent 10 years in New York working as a photographer.
Along with her own photography, she spent 3 years working for the world wide photographers cooperative Magnum photos in Print Exhibitions and 2 years for Keith Richards, archiving his personal photography collection, for his autobiography "Life."
Prior to living in New York, Eve spent 5 years in Los Angeles working with the legendary rock and roll photographer Henry Diltz.
Eve studied photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the Portfolio School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Shannon Wolf
Shannon Wolf grew up in North Carolina. After college at UNC-Chapel Hill and Furman University, she attended graduate school in Charlotte, while working at the PBS station WTVI and on several films.
After school, Shannon moved to New York and went full time into the television world for the next 15 years. She worked at VH1 in the news and docs department, and then spent the next 8 plus years at the Oxygen Network developing, producing and writing shows, as well as several documentary specials.
She spent the next several years as the series story producer for Investigation Discovery’s, The Shift. Other work includes covering NY fashion week and style packages for various networks.
Shannon currently freelances and lives in Raleigh with her husband, son and Brussels Griffon, Tiny Wolf.